Aredvi Azad

"Shaming people into wearing #condoms is never an effective public health strategy. What we need is some encouraging information to fill the enthusiasm gap in condom education." Read Full Blog heal2end.org/condom-educati… #SexualHealth #SexualPleasure #CondomEducation @aredviazad

"In my #utopia, after doing the work of selecting a condom that works well for you, you would then always carry your favorite condoms with you (#LikeABoss) and never show up to have sex without them." heal2end.org/condom-educati… #SexualPleasure #CondomEducation @aredviazad

"In this day and age, there is a condom for everyone; a condom that doesn’t stop your equipment from working & helps you feel plenty of pleasure; a condom you could actually get excited about." heal2end.org/condom-educati… #SexualHealth #SexualPleasure #CondomEducation @aredviazad

"'If you love/trust me, you won’t use a condom' manipulates a partner away from #condom use. Pressuring & manipulating a partner into not using condoms is #sexualviolence." Read more heal2end.org/condom-educati… #SexualPleasure #SexualHealth #manipulation @aredviazad

"We can’t just ask people to wear condoms, feeling good about having said what needed to be said, and then judge their ambivalence with accusations of irresponsibility." Read blog heal2end.org/condom-educati… #SexualHealth #SexualPleasure #CondomEducation #Heal2endBlog @aredviazad

@aredviazad says that "As our bodies are policed, and pleasure rights are allocated to the privileged few deemed deserving of sexual connections, #SexualFreedom grants the most marginalized the opportunity to claim pleasure, autonomy, and agency over their sexual body."

“You never had to look at me. I had to look at you. I know more about you than you know about me. Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” ― James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro #IAmNotYourNegro #JamesBaldwin

Just published my first blogpost: A letter to the slut that was my childhood neighbor @aredviazad/a-letter-to-the-slut-that-was-my-childhood-neighbor-f51b01be9da2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@aredviazad/a-… #sexuality #teenagers #shame #neighbors

Some relationship are like that jar of homemade pesto you made six months ago that was really good fresh. You have a feeling it's going bad in the back of the fridge, but you choose to delay taking a look inside to confirm that feeling.

Internalized oppression is often a sense of defeat that has been rationalized as false empowerment. #wakeup